In English:

The ugly threat to Muslims in Germany. By Axel Fair-Schulz and Laura Fair-Schulz (SocialistWorker.org, March 9, 2015). “Despite its recent setbacks, the successes of the Islamophobic PEGIDA movement have identified fertile ground for the far right.”

Stopping the German far right (Socialist Review, Issue 400, March 2015). “Socialist MP Christine Buchholz outlines the tasks and the challenges for the anti-fascist and anti-racist movement in Germany.”

In English:

The truth about Charlie: One year after the 7 January attacks. By Karima Bennoune (New Politics, January 8, 2016). ” In case anyone is confused about the politics of this – it was a far right attack on the left.”

Who is Charlie? By Lindsey German (Counterfire, November 12, 2015). Review of Emmanuel Todd, Who is Charlie? Xenophobia and the new middle class (Polity Press 2015, 211 p.)

Qui est Charlie? (Weekly Worker, Issue 1041, 15 January 2015). “Paul Demarty asks, who exactly is Charlie?” See also in the same issue Peter Manson: Confusion abounds: How has the left reacted to the Paris slaughter? + Yassamine Mather: Courtesy of the CIA: Did outrage caused by the provocations of an irreverent magazine provoke the Paris attacks?

The issues after Charlie Hebdo. By Yves Coleman (Solidarity, Issue 349, 14 January 2015). “… [about] some of the problems and discussions inside the radical left and anarchist circles.”

Charlie Hebdo – Unity in condemnation and solidarity. By Nick Wrack (The Project: A Socialist Journal, January 13, 2015). “Charlie Hebdo … attacked all religions, exposing their irrationality and hypocrisy. It was irreverent, ribald, scatological and childish. But it was of the left.”

The massacre in Charlie Hebdo. By Michel Warschawski (Alternativenews.org (AIC), 11 January 2015). “… Nevertheless, broadly speaking, Charlie was part of my political environment.”

The massacre at Charlie Hebdo. By David Finkel (New Politics, January 9, 2015). “… at the hands of an extremist faction that seeks, first and foremost, to control the lives and the thoughts of Muslim communities …”

On Charlie Hebdo. By Richard Seymour (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, January 7, 2015). “The murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists is appalling. But we should fear the coming Islamophobic backlash.” The article with debate at Lenin’s Tomb.

In English:

Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras (International Socialism, Issue 147, Summer 2015, p.19-44). “Gareth Jenkins and Despina Karayianni report on the performance of the Syriza-led government and the different movements developing under it.”

Nobody’s blinking (Michael Roberts Blog: blogging from a marxist economist, June 16, 2015). “The problem is that Greek capitalism is just too feeble to recover on its own.”

Syriza and socialist strategy (International Socialism, April 15, 2015, web only). “The following is a video (1:33:33 min.) and transcript of a debate between Stathis Kouvelakis, Syriza central committee member, and Alex Callinicos, editor of International Socialism, Central London, 25 February 2015.”

This election can turn the tide in Greece (SocialistWorker.org, January 21, 2015). Interview with Sotiris Martalis, a member of the Central Committee of SYRIZA and the Central Committee of Internationalist Workers Left (DEA).

Yemen: Mounting evidence of high civilian toll of Saudi-led airstrikes. (Amnesty International, 8 May 2015). “New eyewitness testimony gathered by Amnesty International in the aftermath of recent airstrikes in Sana’a points to a repeated failure by the Saudi Arabian-led military coalition to take adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths in Yemen.”

The Moral Economy of Distance in the Yemeni Crisis. By Jillian Schwedler and Stacey Philbrick Yadav (Merip, May 6, 2015). “For Washington, the current concern, as with these previous examples, is to support a key ally, Saudi Arabia, and to crush al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.”

Yemen through its literature: A nation besieged. By Nahrain Al-Mousawi (Middle East monitor, 5 May 2015). “Although limited in publication and certainly by translation, Yemeni literature (and lack thereof) functions …”as a prism of a nation riven by years of occupation, civil war, corruption, and poverty.”

Yemenis Making Art in the Time of War. By Noon Arabia (Global Voices, 5 May 2015).”Yemenis are putting their art and creativity to call for an end of a war in their country, which is the poorest in the Middle East.”

Saudi Arabia and the War of Legitimacy in Yemen. By Lara Aryani (Jadaliyya, May 2, 2015). “Saudi Arabia has used “Operation Decisive Storm” (and now “Operation Restore Hope”) to mark a new chapter in its own history as a military and political power.

Life and Death of an Al Qaeda Spokesman. By Iona Craig (The Intercept, April 29, 2015). “A few months after the FBI director blasted media outlets for anonymously quoting an AQAP spokesperson, that spokesperson was killed in a US drone strike.”

Why The US Is Arming Al-Qaida In Yemen. By Catherine Shakdam (Mint Press News, April 28, 2015). “Whether it’s half-a-billion dollars in “lost” weaponry or arms and materiel sold directly to Saudi Arabia, one thing is clear: The U.S. is playing a major role in the chaos unravelling Yemen.”

My Perspective on the War on Yemen. By James Jordan-Bradley (Facebook: Global opposition to the war on Yemen, April 23, 2015). “The war on Yemen will only bring more chaos to Yemen, the Middle East and the World.”

Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence. By Teun van Dongen (Toward Freedom, 24 February 2015). “According to Reprieve, a stunning 28 innocent people have been killed for every known terrorist or militant felled by a drone strike.”

Sanders, Trump and the US working class. By Megan Trudell (International Socialism, Issue 150, Spring 2016). “Sanders’s ‘political revolution’ represents something significant … the intrusion into the mainstream of the ideas and demands of the political movements that have emerged over the past five years.”

From the Sanders Campaign forward: Where do we go from here? By Dan La Botz (New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, March 25, 2016). Concluding part of the series “A New Politics in America”. See below.

A discussion of the Sanders campaign (New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol.15, No.4, Winter 2016). “New Politics has solicited two articles from different points of view on the Sanders campaign, one by our co-editor Jason Schulman and the other by Lance Selfa and Ashley Smith of the International Socialist Organization.” See also Barry Finger: Sanders and the Democrats: a reply to Jason Schulman (March 21) + Jason Schulman: Getting from here to there: a response to Barry Finger (March 27)

Can America go socialist? (SocialistWorker.org, March 8, 2016). “Bhaskar Sunkara, the editor of Jacobin magazine, and Alan Maass, the editor of SocialistWorker.org, discussed what it all means for the left and the struggle ahead.”

Socialists and the horse race (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, March 3, 2016). “Will backing Bernie Sanders help build an independent left?: four socialists came together to debate these questions. Danny Katch of the International Socialist Organization, Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin magazine, Gloria Mattera of the Green Party, and Dustin Guastella of the Democratic Socialists of America.”

Outsider in the White House. By Tony Phillips (Socialist Review, Issue 409, January 2016). Review of Bernie Sanders book (Verso, 2015, 368 p.). First edition 1997. See also Matt Karp: Bernie in the Age of Clinton: Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, January 24, 2016)

Feeling the Bern: can Sanders beat Clinton? By Sean Ledwith (Counterfire, February 9, 2016). “In challenging the corporatist and status quoist politics of Clinton, Sanders has become an electoral lightning rod for the movements.”

The socialism of Bernie Sanders (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 20 November 2015). “Jacobin contributors [Nicole Aschoff, Connor Kilpatrick and Paul Heideman] on Bernie Sanders’ democratic socialism speech and what his candidacy means for the Left.”

A new politics in America, Part 1-9. By Dan La Botz (New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, March 14 – March 25, 2016). Contents: Roots in the 1960s – Economic Crisis of the 1970s – The New Right of the 1980s – Southern & Suburban Strategies – The Obama Years – From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street – From Occupy to Progressive Politics and Black Lives Matter – Hillary and the Donald – From the Sanders Campaign forward.

In English:

The Left after Syriza (International Socialist Review, Issue 99, Winter 2015-16). Interview with Antonis Davanellos, leading member of Greece’s Popular Unity and the International Workers’ Left (DEA).

Debate on Greece (International Viewpoint, 18 September 2015). “With five pieces assessing what has happened in Greece over recent months and the implications for the left across Europe and internationally.”

The Syriza dilemma. By Sam Gindin & Leo Panitch (Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, July 27, 2015). “What would constructive pressure on the Syriza government look like?”

The Greek debacle. By Perry Anderson (Jacobin, July 23, 2015). “On the crisis in Greece and Syriza’s failure to resist the eurozone.”

A Brest Litovsk moment? (SocialistWorker.org, July 23, 2015). “Paul D’Amato comments on a historical analogy being applied to Greece today.”

Knife at its throat, Greece yields to Troika brutality. By Dick Nichols, (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, July 22, 2015). “Greece has lost a battle, most probably unavoidably, but its courageous struggle against capitalist austerity continues. It must not be left to fight alone.”

The Brussels diktat: and what followed. By Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra, and Frieder Otto Wolf (OpenDemocracy, 20 July 2015). “Alexis Tsipras won the battle on a question of principle – the need for a new Europe – even if he lost the war that ensued.”

The struggle for the soul of SYRIZA (SocialistWorker.org, July 20, 2015). Interview with Sotiris Martalis, supporter of the Left Platform and member of the SYRIZA Central Committee.

Lessons from a defeat in Europe. By Martin Hart-Landsberg (MRZine.org, July 14, 2015). “… the nature of its defeat is likely to leave the country worse off, at least both economically and very likely politically as well.”

The alternative to austerity (Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, July 15, 2015). “There is an alternative to capitulation in Greece. Here is the Left Platform of Syriza’s plan.”

Greece: The struggle continues. Sebastian Budgen interviews Stathis Kouvelakis (Jacobin: A Magazine of Culture and Polemic, July 14, 2015). “A definitive account of what has transpired over the last few weeks in Greece, and what’s next for Syriza and the European left.”

Greek deal: a second Versailles. By James Meadway (Counterfire, July 15, 2015). “The deal agreed between Greece and the “Institutions”, its creditors, late on Sunday is shockingly bad.”

No! But what now? (Michael Roberts Blog: blogging from a Marxist economist, July 5, 2015). “How can the Greek economy be made to grow? There are three possible economic policy solutions.”

Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras (International Socialism, Issue 147, Summer 2015, p.19-44). “Gareth Jenkins and Despina Karayianni report on the performance of the Syriza-led government and the different movements developing under it.”See also:

Where did the Greek bailout money go? By Axel Stahmer and Jörg Rocholl
(ESMT White Paper, 2016, 24 p.). “This paper … finds that less than â‚¬10 billion or a fraction of less than 5% of the overall programme went to the Greek fiscal budget.”

In English:

The Corbyn project: public capital and Labour’s New Deal (New Left Review, Issue 111, May-June 2018, p.5-32). “Given the imbalances of the UK economy—overblown financial sector, gaping current account, delirious levels of debt—what structural changes might a Corbyn government effect? Robin Blackburn discusses prospects and proposals for an egalitarian shift.”

“The momentum is with us” (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, May 8, 2018). “A Jacobin conversation with Bernie Sanders on the state of left politics today.”

After the surge: Corbyn and the road ahead. By Mark L Thomas (International Socialism, Issue 156, Autumn 2017, p.115-140). “Labour under Corbyn was able to win almost 13 million votes for a platform that rejected austerity and challenged the neoliberal settlement that has existed in Britain since the late 1970s.”

Corbyn justified, May humbled—the left advances. By Alex Callinicos (International Socialism, Issue 155, Summer 2017, p.3-18). “… the election saw the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn … win its highest share of the vote since Tony Blair’s second landslide in 2001.”

Jeremy Corbyn and the battle for Socialism. By Andrew Murray (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 7 February 2016). “Even if socialism can’t be won through the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn’s success shows how valuable work within the party can be.”

On Corbyn’s side for the sake of the wider left. By Shaun Doherty (Socialist Review, Issue 409, January 2016). “In the face of the Blairites’ and the media’s continuing vicious assault on Jeremy Corbyn, socialists have a duty to stand up in defence of the principles on which he won the leadership contest.”

The Corbyn revolution: What does it mean and where is it going? Part 1-2. By Alan Woods (In Defence of Marxism, 13-18 November 2015). “With the election of Jeremy Corbyn in a landslide victory it felt as if a huge stone had been thrown into it, making gigantic waves that have transformed the entire political landscape.”

Two faces of reformism. By Alex Callinicos (International Socialism, Issue 148, Autumn 2015). “Jeremy Corbyn is a republican, a socialist and an anti-imperialist, so this is a big ask. But the record of previous left wing Labour leaders is not a happy one.”

Corbynomics: can it work? By Simon Guy (Socialist Review, Issue 407, November 2015). “Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell are championing economic policies that challenge the neoliberalism of the past four decades.”

What does Corbyn’s victory mean?. By Phil Gasper (SocialistWorker.org, September 16, 2015). “For Corbyn to succeed, he will need to mobilize Labour members and broader social movements outside of parliament.”

Syriza’s repressive turn. By Stathis Kouvelakis and Costas Lapavitsas (Jacobin, October 6, 2018). “Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest.”

Greece: the spectre of debt (Michael Roberts Blog, May 22, 2018). “I’ve just got back from a visit to Greece … I talked to several left activists and academics and it seems that little has improved for the Greek people since my last visit two years ago.”

What Popular Unity can do. By Panagiotis Sotiris (Jacobin, September 19, 2015). “Ahead of the Greek elections tomorrow, Popular Unity remains the best hope for the radical left.”

Elections in Greece and the left’s challenge. By Sotiris Martalis (SocialistWorker.org, September 18, 2015). ” … [about] how the new alliance Popular Unity was formed to confront the betrayals of Alexis Tsipras’ SYRIZA government.”

Se også:

Borderland. By Stathis Kouvelakis (New Left Review, Issue 110, March-April 2018, p.5-33). “The Greek case discloses the impotence and the illusions of the ‘radical’ European left. It is because of their inability to understand the powerful mechanisms at work in this polarized, hierarchized space, abstracted from any possibility of democratic control, that left-wing attempts, however partial, to break with this regime have been doomed to failure.”

The rise and fall of Syriza. By Aaron Amaral (International Socialist Review, Issue 99, Winter 2015-16). Review of Kevin Ovenden, Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth (Pluto Press, 2015, 200 p.). “Kevin Ovenden’s new book provides an invaluable introduction for a broad English-speaking audience to Greece’s social and political struggle against neoliberal austerity.”

Why did Syriza fail? By Panos Garganas (International Socialism, Issue 148, Autumn 2015). “How has Syriza ended up this way? This is a question that is tormenting a big part of the left and that all the forces that situate themselves on the left must answer.”

Turning point in Greece: Syriza, the Left, and the struggle ahead. By Paul D’Amato (International Socialist Review, Issue 98, Fall 2015). “Our purpose here is not to draw a complete balance sheet of events that continue to unfold at a rapid pace … but to draw some provisional lessons regarding the strategy of Syriza, its electoral successes and failures, and the role of the left within it.”

Staying human in the belly of the beast. By Christian Høgsbjerg (Socialist Review, Issue 407, November 2015). “Working with CLR James and others she helped to rescue revolutionary socialism from the dead weight of Stalinism, as well as becoming a notable activist in the Civil Rights movement.”

Grace Lee Boggs, 1915-2015. By David Finkel (Against the Current, Issue 179, November-December 2015) “When Grace Lee Boggs died in her beloved adopted city of Detroit, she was well into her eighth decade of activism.”

Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015). By Aaron Petkov (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 16 October 2015). “Grace Lee Boggs dedicated her life to the belief that ordinary people could change the world.”

Grace Lee Boggs dies at 100 years old. By Shannon Jones (World Socialist Web Site, 9 October 2015). “After a brief passage through the Trotskyist movement in the early 1950s, she began a long evolution to the right, turning to black nationalist and feminist politics in the 1960s, …)

The 13 November attacks in Paris: the terror of the Islamic State, the state of emergency in France, our responsibilities. By FranÃ§ois Sabado and Pierre Rousset (International Viewoint, Issue 490, November 2015). “The Islamic State and other similar movements do not just react; they act according to their own agenda.”

ISIS carnage in Paris portends repression in Europe and intensified war in Middle East. By Kevin Anderson (The International Marxist-Humanist, November 19, 2015). “One crucial point will be how we can separate ourselves both from the carnage of ISIS and the various imperialist and regional powers that are seeking to gain from the Paris events.”

Seven wrinkles in the Paris climate deal. By Oscar Reyes (Foreign Policy in Focus, December 14, 2015). “Will the landmark UN climate deal mark a turning point in the fight against climate change? The devil’s in the details.”

After the Paris climate talks: stay in the streets (Counterfire, December 14, 2015). “Elaine Graham-Leigh takes a closer and more critical look at what the Paris talks really mean for our planet.”

Taking climate change seriously (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, December 7, 2015). “Naomi Klein on the crackdown against ‘COP21 protesters’ and why ‘system change not climate change’ is more than a slogan.”

A workers’ resistance to the crisis in Venezuela (SocialistWorker.org, August 8, 2018). An interview with Gonzalo Gómez: “A Venezuelan socialist speaks about the spread of new workers’ struggles ignited by the chaos in society and what it means for the future.”

Where is Venezuela going? By Andy Brown (International Socialism, Issue 156, Autumn 2017, p.15-32). “This article sets [the] situation in context and seeks to offer an analysis of what has happened in Venezuela, as well as map an appropriate response for revolutionary socialists to current events.”

Bolivarian revolution in trouble. By Joseph Choonara (Socialist Review, Issue 427, September 2017). “While attempts to topple President Maduro must be opposed, it is the contradictions of Chavismo that have laid the basis for the current crisis.”

Supporting the “lesser evil” in Venezuela? By Tom Lewis (SocialistWorker.org, August 15, 2017). “With Donald Trump threatening military action against Venezuela, the left’s ongoing debate about the way forward is all the more acute.”

How should the left respond in Venezuela? (New Politics, August 15, 2017). “This interview with Carlos Carcione, member of the socialist organization Marea Socialista, provides a perspective on events from the vantage point of the Venezuelan opposition to the left of the government.”

Venezuela: What’s going on? — an interview with Jeffery Webber (Against the Current, Issue 185, November-December 2016). “The economic collapse in Venezuela, and the appalling social crisis and desintegration of the ‘Bolivarian Revolution’, is widely reported but only thinly analyzed in the media. We explore here some of the background and dynamics of the disaster.”

Venezuela: for sale to the highest bidder? By Mike Gonzalez (RS21: Revolutionary Socialism for the 21st Century, October 14, 2016, 19 p.). “His article explores changes to the system, and the growth of a new ruling class around President Maduro following the death of Hugo Chavez.”

Why ‘Twenty-First-Century Socialism’ failed. By Eva María (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 4 August 2016). “The Bolivarian Revolution improved millions of lives, but it was never able to fundamentally challenge the logic of capital.”

Venezuela: A revolution that lost its way. By Mike Gonzalez (Irish Marxist Review, Vol.5, No.15, 2016, p.41-48). “The reality, however, was that the majority that had supported Chávez had lost confidence in the revolution he had set in train.”

Venezuela after Chávez (New Left Review, Issue 99, May-June 2016). Interview with Julia Buxton: “As Nicolás Maduro clings on to the presidency, a leading analyst discusses the crumbling of Chavista hegemony and a revival of the right amid collapsing oil revenues, a malfunctioning economy, street protests, and the long-term corruption of state structures.”